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Newspaper Page Textp l" : ; ; LIJ-u.r,. .,J.JJJ1J . 1 5 " 0 ' o V Forecasts Overcast Saturday. ' J ;v t Telephone MUM fi iRICE FIVE CENTS ' KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. FRIDAY. JANUARY II. 1111 s 1? Number 10722 ..t , 0.;0 . By FHANK JENKINS i "TODAY'S Jitter now cornea ?. from London, where tho ;. United Nation organization (UNO la taking Its first fullering steps toward WOULD govern- '"THE Irnnlnn delegation takes wltnt tho dispatches describe Its tho "first concrete steps to Airing thu EXPLOSIVE Iranian ; lUwsInn Ih.iiiu before tho world a accurlty council." ; John M. llliilitowcr, of the AP i (a competent reporter), cubic : from London thla morning thnt "numerous UNO officials, Includ i' ing those of the United Slutea 5 and Grout Britain, privately ex- ) preaaeu concern over tne iriiniun f iiueatlon and auld that tho un ' tried and only partially com pleted machinery of tho pence ' organization might be badly atralnud In trylnu to copo with aueh a dispute at tho very out- act or lla existence. (The meat of the Iranian Issue ao far aa we aro oblo to judgu from tho little that haa been told to ua. Ilea in tho fact that bin Russia la apparently sucking to , take a bits out of little Iran'a territory.) fHIS la the point: If the council s decision rocs against RuiMla, ttussla might bo ao angered as to upset the unity cf the Big Three nations with' out which UNO can't be success ful. If the decision goes against Iran, tho faith of the amull nn tlona In UNO's ability to protect their interests against conflict ing policies of tho great powers might do inaKcn. THE dilemma has a THIRD 1 horn: If the council STALLS OFF a decision too lon It will bo likely to lose prestige at a timo when II It la to worn lis prestige should be GROWING through' Vout tho world. " So, you ace. It can be damned t It docs and damned If it domn't which la always an un- pleasant spot to bo on, 'ALL this will serve to give you an Idea of tho extreme del icacy of the Job UNO is tackling Hero at tho beginning of its Great Experiment, It is literally walking on eggs. If Its decisions throughout arc dominated by MEN OF GOOD WILL, It can succeed. If not Well, that contingency 1 ul most too tcrriblo to be consid' crod. . fHURCHlLL. one of the world's clearest and -most realistic thinkers, put it this wuy ; x the other day: "As, to UNO's chances of suc cess, y"u arc us good a judgo as I am. As to tho NEED for such an organization, WHAT ELSE IS THERE IN THE WOULD TO HOPE FOR?" FOR tho past few days, a tiny Rcnrlct thread has been run ning through the fabric of the news: It is an IMMENSELY significant thread. You have caught or you may have missed Its significance. Mayors of some of our most Important cities have been re V cclvlng from tho Los Alamos , scientists samples of FUSED A SAND from tho site of tho atom f" bomb lest In Now Mexico. (The sand was fused into glass by the heat generated when tho sample bomb was exploded.) These bits of fused sand, the scientists explain, arc being sent to largo city mayors in order to bring to tho public a realization of tho dangers of atomic energy. They are STILL RADIO ACTIVE', ond a lettor accom panying them warns that for safety's sake no one should re main close to them for more than 24 hours. (The ntomlc explosion Hint created these bits of fused sand occurred LAST SUMMER.) UNO's big job, beside which Its other tasks pale Into in significance. Is to prevent some nation GOING ON THE LOOSE and using ntomlc wnrfaro to con quer tho world. That Is why these sessions thnt are getting tinder wny In London arc so important and so delicate. X. Bus-Streetcar Crash Hurts 20 PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 18 (VP) Five persons remnincd In n hos- filtal today after a jammed Port nnd Traction company bus crashed Into a streetcar here in juring 20. The Mississippi bus veered from Its lane into tho Brondwny streetcar late yesterday, onlook ers said. Tho bus driver, II. R. Stanton, 43, was cited for violat ing tho bnsic traffic rule. Marine Post Set To Close On March 1 i Specialized Medical Activities Now Completed The marine corps has set March 1 us a tentative date for closing tho Murine Durracks as an active marine post, it was learned from an authoritative sourco today. Specialized medical activities for which the Klamath post was created have been completed, und continuation beyond March 1 will not bo required, accord ing to instructions which have gone out from murina corps headquarters to the department of tho mcmc. Dlsbnndnvciit of tho post, dis position of properly, and distri bution of personnel will require a considerable period beyond the formal closing date, and It will probably bo late in May or in June beforo marlno personnel have moved entirely off the in stallation. Today's disclosures are the first to Indicate Unit the marine corps has finally decided it can not muko further use of tho big Klamath establishment, which woi set up originally as a re conditioning and training center for marines who contracted trop ical diseases in tho Pacific war theater. Col. Charles T. Brooks of the marine corps and Capt. Lowell T. Coggcshull, USNR, representing the navy bureau of medicine and surgery, are tho head men at the barracks. Capt. Coggcshull helped determine the mission of the post before its establishment, and has been its ranking medical officer through out Its history. Tho post has won national fame, In tho field of tropical difteasfc. " - "';( Facilities Studied ' There has been widespread local discussion of tho possibil ity of making the Murine Bar racks a veterans' administration facility, especially since the vet erans bureau announced some time ago It would establish a hos pital at Klamath Falls. It Is known that recently a represen tative of tho administration spent two days on tho post, study. (CsnUnncd en t, Colvnin 1) Iran Dispute Eyed By UNO By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER LONDON, Jan. 18 (VP) Tho Iranian delegation to tho United Nations bencral assembly todav took tho first concrete steps to bring tho explosive Irnnlan-Rus- sinn dispute bctoro tho world se curity council as Soviet delc- gotes maintained complete si lence on the issue. Andrei Gromyko, acting chief of the Soviet delegation, making the first major Russian speech beforo the assembly, ignored the Iranian question, wlilch was causing serious concern among United Nations leaders. Shortly before Gromyko took mo iioor oeyoa iiasscn Taqulza' doh, chief of tho Iranian dcloga Hon, conferred with tho cxocii. live secretary of the assembly on what Taauizudch called "toehni. cal orrongemonts" for placing iran s compininu uctorc the se curity council. Some of the Iranian loader's associates had indicated earlier tnat tho case might be filed to day or tomorrow, but they snld they were uncertnln over where and how to file It. Presumably this was the question taken up with Secretary Gladwyn Jebb by xuquizaacn. SOUTHERN SEMAT' ,o FORM FILIBUSTER ON . EPC BILL Packer Tie-up Blocks Chicago Traffic. tir " " I) Striking meaf workara block traffic at entrance to Chicago atock yards aa 33.000 workara there and 300.000 throughout the nation atop work, despite urging of government officials to postpone atrlke. Tha walkout, which threatens to ahut off most of the natlon'a meat supply, ia largest single work stoppage ainca prewar days. , Charges Hurled In Wake Of Bitter Pickei Clash Charges and counter - charges were hurled today with almost the same violence as tear gas bombs yesterday in the woke of a bitter battle at the U. S. Motors plant, where police forc ed a path through a picket line for non-striking office workers. The CIO United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers union Is on striko at the plant one of five closed in southern California, with 3000 workers out for a 30 per cent pay in crease, eight paid holidays and other benefits. Boos greeted reading of a superior court restraining order, enjoining the more than 500 pickets from interfering with access to the plant. As leaders urged the massed lines to hold fast, a platoon of police moved toward the main gate. Fighting broke out quickly. Steel helmets of pickets and clubs of police battered skulls and faces. Then the mask-protected police resorted to gas Dying Dag Waits For Phone Call DETROIT, Jan. 18 (IP) Honey Girl, the dying 21-year-old Boston Terrier, whose will to live is accelerated by the sound of her master's voice via transcontinental telephone, was reported sinning today. , Only another phone call from Signalman 2c Harry E. Bennett will keep her going in the opin ion of the boy's mother, Mrs. Joseph Rockwood. Bennett is In Bremerton, Wash., awaiting overseas duty. "Harry was supnosed to coll last night," Mrs. Rockwood said today. "But ho must have been on duty. We ro hoping he 11 call tonight." Receipt Of Box From Atom Scientists Brings Chills DALLAS, Jan. 18 (fP) When the mayor of Dallas received a small wooden box from the sci entists who perfected the atomic bomb, his office took no chances. They called the chief of police. The box arrived nt tho office of Mayor Woodall Rodgcrs yes terday afternoon. A notation on the box read "deliver at 2:30 p. m 1-10-46." "It's probably just an atomic bomb souvenir, but I don't like those instructions," snid Mrs. Glenn McCnllon, tho city secre tary's secretary. "I think the po lice ought to open It." She culled Mayor Rodgcrs for permission to call Chief of Po lice Carl Hamson, who promptly took over from there. Listening Intently, he decid ed it wasn't a time bomb. Ho started for the basement and City Manager V, R. Smlthnm said "it's nice to have known you, Carl." . In the basement garage Chief iinnsson said u it s a bomb, it trips from the lid. Gingerly he pried open tho lid, Nothing hap pened. Inside Hansson found a small piece of the fused sand from the site of the atomic bomb test In New Mexico. A letter from the Association of Los Alamos Scientists ex plained that similar specimens have been sent to mayors of all large cities in order to bring to tho public a realization of the dangers of atomic energy. ' The letter also warned that for safety's sake no one should remain close to the specimen for more than 24 hours, as It was still radioactive. It urged display in a gloss case. LOS ANGELES. jiiffWiWW and some 75 clerical workers entered the plant. Of 23 persons arrested, three were women. All were released on $50 bond. Among them were Phillip M. Connelly, former state CIO president, now execu tive secretary of the Los Ange les CIO council; Carl Brant, in ternational organizer for the union; and Mrs. LoRue McCor mick, former communist party candidate for the state senate, who said she was present as a sympathizer. They were booked on suspicion of rioting. Two policemen were treated at hospitals for injuries, one for leem Dites on Ills arm. The un ion said three pickets were treated privately. Meat Strike Confab Fails WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (IP) The government's ef fnr( tn ci. jic me meat packing strike by mc - i-uiiii-rence memon hrnirA down today end the meat fact finding board will open hear ings in nicago Tuesday. Chairman Edwin F. Wlttee of the fact-finding board told newsmen that "chances of set tlement today are not too bright," adding that disnutanta were returning to Chicago im mediately. Witte indicated that, other than attempting to conciliate the wage dispute, the govern ment's direct participation in we case was over , until fact finding begins. He said the three-day-old strike of 263.000 meat Dockinc workers was no nearer settle ment that it had been lust nignt. Quake Causes Troop Stampede SYDNEY, Jon. 18 (P) Dis patches from Lae, New Guinea, today reported a violent earth quake had shaken that area last night, causing a stampede at a movie oeing snown to American Negro troops. The camp of 300 "emptied in a flash," the report said. Bottles and crockery tumbled from kitchen shelves, bats and birds were shaken from the swaying breadfruit trees, and buildings shuddered. Race Issue Draws Fire From South Wordy Spiel Will Be Reminiscent Of . Huey Long WASHINGTON. Jan. 18 (jJ A group of southern senators formally organized today to block senate action on the FEPC bill. At a meeting in the office of Senator Byrd (D-Va.), Senators Overton (D-La.) and Russell (D- Ga.) were chosen co-leaders of the southern group, apparently preparing for an extended fili- Dusier. After the session, Overton told reporters: "You can say that we propose to iignt this bin with every wea pon Tn our sheath." Overton estimated that 15 sen ators from southern states at tended the conference. The wordiest filibuster since Huey Long's time threatened on Capitol Hill as the- senate plunged into a knock-down. drag-out fight on the dynamite packed FEPC bill. The advance billing had Capi tol Hill harkine back to the '20s -Lwhen Long, as senator from Lou- uinua, net, un a x...uuatc: uiaia- thon during which he discoursed, on, 8 myriad of subjects, includ ing the 'nJ5r$4$, pKiuthern "poj " To talk Plants A solid pTialanx of southern senators, all pledged to talk plen ty, lined up against the fair em ployment practice bill which would establish a ' permanent committee to eliminate racial and religious discrimination in industrial and governmental em. ployment. "I'm gong to talk against it as long as God gives me breath," Senator Eliender (D-La.) told a reporter. - Senator Eastland (D-Miss.) promised that he and Senator McClellan (D-Ark.) would offer 1000 amendments to the FEPC legislation between them. East land said he would talk "two years" if necessary. Senator Bilbo (D-Miss.). who knows a filibuster when he is in one, informed newsmen he in tended to speak twice "30 days at a time" against the measure which has been endorsed repeat edly by President Truman. The unexpected motion which called up the controversial bill before the senate yesterday took its southern opponents complete ly by surprise. A hurried strat egy session was ordered, but they made no bones they would use everything in the rule book in their effort to block a vote. Arriving In United States By Associated Praia " Alvin W. Kleeman. SSgt., Weed,- arrived on - George Mead due in New York Jan uary 17. Fills Vacancy CD Access YtrumntcsrD Pay The position of 4-H agent has bn filUd with the arrival of Francis Skinner of Oklahoma, a veteran of tha U. S. army who served as captain in the 91st infantry division for 17 months in Italy. H. C. Seymour, state 4-H club leader, intro duced tha new agent in Klam ath Falls. Skinner's wife, a for mer resident of Eugene, is here with him. Logger Shot Through Neck CORVALLIS, Ore., Jan. 18 (P) Ernest Bowman, 45, Kelso logger whose body was found yesterday in Mary's river, was shot through the back of the neck and his spinal cord severed. Dr. Joseph Beeman, state crim inologist, said today. Dr. Beeman said an autopsy showed the man's abdomen had been slit open so the body would sink. S. D. McClain, Portland, whom Linn County Sheriff H. A. Southard said confessed taking Bowman for a fatal ride last month, is held in the Linn coun ty jail, along with Jack Mann, on ourgiHry uiihikus. Officials were trying to deter mine where to file a charge in the slaying. McClain and Mann's stories differ. Southard said, as to the county in which the shoot ing; occurred. General Orders Agitators Freed HONOLULU, Jan. 18 (P) Three American soldiers who had been confined to quarters during an army investigation of their remarks about demobil ization were free today on or ders of Lt. Gen. R'obert C. Richardson Jr. "The investigation deter mined that while their enthusi asm was somewhat misdirected, it was not enough to warrant punishment," the mid-Pacific commander said. Chicago Boys Nabbed Here A pair of 14-year-old Chicago boys, who left their homes to see the world the day of the Suzanne Degnan kidnapping in Chicago, are being held by ju venile authorities here awaiting transportation back home. The youngsters took off from Chicago for Florida but their hitch-hiking carried them west instead of south until they reached Los Angeles last week. At Los Angeles they ' were picked, up by police, the first time they had attracted official attention ' in their -tour of. the country, and questioned for about an hour concerning the Kldnap-murder of the Degnan child. That happened on January 9, the same day the boys left Chi cago. They satisfied the Cali fornia police they had nothing to do with the Chicago case and were released. The boys headed north then and arrived in Klamath Falls yesterday only to be picked up by police here and turned over to the juvenile office. They told juvenile authorities of their trip across the country and of the police questioning in Los Angeles, but maintained that their fathers. Chicago oo- licemen, had given them per mission io leave nome. . A check with their parents showed that there had been no permission given and that a search was being made in the mid-west for the boys. Draff Lag Blamed On Enlistments WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (JP) Over protests, a special senate committee ended its public hearings on army demobiliza tion' today after hearing Selec tive Service Director Lewis B. Hershey blame heavy enlist ments for a lag in draft quotas. Chairman Edwin C. Johnson (D-Colo.) announced the ter mination and promptly drew from Senator Briggs (D-Mo.) a complaint that "onlv one side of the case has been presented." Senators Revercomb (R-W. Va.), third member of the group, also protested that he had received many letters from soldiers and wanted the com mittee to look them over. Johnson replied that the hearings already held should provide congress and the pub lic with all the facts necessary to answer complaints of GI's who want to get home or out of the army. Hike tftfer By The Associated Presi The CIO accepted today President Truman's proposal for settling the threatened steel strike but the United States Steel corporation rejected it. A nationwide steel strike of 800,000 workers is scheduled for 12:01 a. m., Monday. . White House Press Secretary Charles C. Ross said the president's proposal called for a wage increase of 18Vi cents hourly within 1 cent of the union's revised offer but ZYx cents above the industry's offer. The president, Ross said, had no plans for seizing tri industry and no further steps were under consideration for averting the walkout. The president's proposal would have made the suggested wage boost retroactive to January 1. ..:..' In a letter to the president, Benjamin Fairless, president of U. S. Steel, said the "pro- posai is almost equivalent to granting in full the union's re vised demand of a wage in crease of 19 V4 cents an hour." "In our opinion," he added, there is no just basis from anv point of view for a wage in crease to our steel workers of the large size you have proposed." He said the company s in creased offer of 15 cents, boost ed from 12 Mi cents, represented PITTSBURGH, Jan. 18 (JP) Headquarters of tha CIO United S t e e 1 w oiktri an nounced today instructions bar been sent to all district and local directors ordering the strike call in the industry "into full force and effect at 12:01 a. m Jan. 21." ;he limit" in the extent of which union demands could be met by his corporation. president Truman made no immediate comment. The president submitted his proposal last night to Fairless and CIO President Philip Mur ray after their direct negotia tion had broken down. Murray, who sent the union s letter of acceptance, scheduled a press conference for 3 p. m. (EST) today. Fairless took up the proposal with top steel industry leaders in New York. Murray sum moned the strategy committee of.CIO'a bie three the steel workers, auto workers . ; and electrical workers for a con ference this morning. The union head met earlier with the steel workers' executive board. No End Seen The strike of 200,000 CIO electrical workers, the second largest walkout, showed no in dications of immediate settle ment. Albert J. Fitzgerald, president of the. CIO United Electrical Workers union, va. Washington offered to submit the wage dispute to a limited arbitration. He specified that the range for any arbitration award must be between the 25 cents an hour -wage hike de manded by the union and 19 H cents. Westinghouse Electric cor poration, one of the three struck firms, said it had not been notified by the union of a desire to arbitrate the wage issue. The walkout, which started Tuesday, also involves General Electric and General Motors, electrical division. As there appeared no let down in the industrial strife, the house labor committee de cided to complete action by Tuesday on fact-finding or some other type of labor legislation. Oregon Not Hit By Phone Tie-Up PORTLAND, Jan. 18 (P) Oregon will not join the Na tional Federation of Telephone Employes if it strikes in 30 days. President Edward T. Healy of the Oregon union said today. He explained the Oregon branch is autonomous, and a contract with the company lasting until June will not al low a strike vote here. Picket lines set up by any division of Western . Electric employes, however, will be observed, Healy said. Thirty-eight supply - men, working in a warehouse here are under Western Electric ' jurisdiction. Redheaded Firebug Says He 'Liked To See Flames' PORTLAND, Jan. 18 (fP) A 17-year-old redhead, whom deputy sheriffs and the FBI said confessed setting $200,000 of fires because he "liked to see flames" matching his hair, was in federal hands today. The youth, Vincent Wesley Hunt, later repudiated the con fession to newspaper reporters. "I told them I set some fires," he said, "but honest, I never did." FBI agents, talking to him after the interview, said, how ever, that he reiterated his for mer confession. U. S. District Attorney Hsnry L. . Hess said he would study the confessions today and de termine what action to take. FBI Head Howard I. Bobbitt and four deputy sheriffs said the bov admitted yesterday set ting the most costly of 12- in cendiary blazes wnicn nave broken out during five weeks in the Vanport City housing project where he lives. They quoted him as saying he set others, too, which he couldn't recall, "because I have a noor memory." The U. S. district attorney said the boy, who never attend ed high school, would be han dled , as a juvenile. He came here with his parents from Sib ley, la., two years ago. 16 Persons Perish In Plane Crash CHESHIRE- Conn.. Jan. 1ft tm A big transport plane reported io ue carrying is passengers and a three-man crew crashed in flames here today, carrying all aboard to their death. The army flight service at Boston identified the plane as Flight 18-B of the Eastern Air lines, en route from LaGuardla field, N. Y.p to Boston. Representatives of the Eastern Airlines at New York told the New Haven Register that radio contact had been lost with one of its New York to Boston trans ports at about the time the acci dent was reported here. The plane, the officials said, carried 13 passengers and three crew men. Ship Seen . . - The big ship, first seen with flames and smoke spouting from its engines, broke in two as it came to earth not far from the Cheshire state reformatory and about 15 miles from New Haven. Eastern Airlines said In New York members of the crew of Flight 16-B included Capt. RE. Kuser, pilot; R. S. Knight, and Flight Attendant Willard Basset, - The passenger list was not im mediately available,, the airlines said.. . -. t . Eastern Airlines said the plane left Miami, Fla at 1:43 a. m., (EST) stopped at Charleston, S. C, Washington and New York and -was on its way to Boston at the time of the crash. ' Probe Will Not Hear Churchill WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 () A republican proposal to call Winston Churchill as a witness was rejected, .6 to 2, today by congressional Pearl Harbor in vestigators in a swiftly-paced ses sion that brought these other de velopments: - - - 1. An assertion by Admiral Husband E. Kimmel that conten tions he had been appointed commander in chief of the fleet in 1941 because he was a "friend of President Roosevelt- and a Kentucky democrat" were "mis representations and lies." - 2. Testimony by Kimmel that President Roosevelt had sided with him at a June, 1941, White House conference against any further transfer of warships from the Pacific to the Atlantic fleets. 3. Kimmel's refusal to draw any conclusion when Rep. Clark (D-N. C.) asked him if 'liigh of ficials here in Washington on down "to the army lieutenant who disregarded a radar warn ing of Japanese planes approach ing Pearl Harbor hadn't "muffed the situation and let the Japs out smart them." t Wild Airplane Scares Gotham ' NEW YORK, Jan. 18 The coast guard said this after noon that a pilotlcss radio-operated plane that flew wild over the New York metropolitan area at 85 miles an hour after getting: out of control, was ''presumed to have crashed," probably at sea.-- -' " ' '' . '' At 3:40 o'clock (EST) the coast guard said no report had been received that the - plane had crashed, adding that "the fuel should have been gone an hour ago." The plane went out of con trol about 12:20 p. m. and start ed its wild flight. The coast guard, in alerting; authorities, said the plane last was seen out of control off Caps May, at the southern end of New Jersey, and was headed toward Long Island and might crash In that area. ' The coast guard said the plane had enough fuel to last until shortly after 3 o'clock (EST). . ';.-: . " 'if.- m I;